La. Stat. tit. 8 § 651

Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session, Chs. 3, 6-496, effective on or before 7/1/2024
Section 8:651 - Interring or cremating

Except in cases of lawful dissection or where a dead body shall rightfully be carried through or removed from the state for the purposes of interment or cremation elsewhere, every dead body of a human being lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body, after dissection, shall be decently interred or cremated within a reasonable time after death.

La. R.S. § 8:651

Acts 1974, No. 417, §1.
Acts 1974, No. 417, §1.